August 2004
Aug. 12, 2004
MS Windows/IE Bug. Crashing a PC using an over-sized image tag.
The Python Paradox (via) Short but sweet.
Mozilla and XForms. Matt May on XForms in Mozilla.
Implementing REST Web Services: Best Practices and Guidelines. All the cool kids are doing it now.
Building Web Services the REST Way. A good brief introduction.
Practical SAX Notes. Making more sense of Python’s XML modules.
Making the Jump to Subversion (via) Excellent tutorial from MacDevCenter.com.
Woeful Circulations for Digital Editions. PDF versions of newspapers are a flop.
Aug. 13, 2004
Implementing Full Text Indexing with PostgreSQL (via) TSearch2 tutorial.
Position This! CSS Positioning Demystified. Molly’s latest.
Dynamic Tools for Dynamic Languages (via) Redefining scripting languages to reflect their wider appeal.
Firefox spoof demonstration (via) Scary spoofing attack using XUL.
This Year’s Document Object Model. Jeremy Keith says that the DOM is the new CSS.
BBC begins open-source streaming challenge (via) Hopefully this means video on the web will suck less.
Jon Udell: Pub/sub, tags, and human filters. Maybe del.icio.us style labels scale better than I thought.
8 quick ways to fix your search engine. Suggesting the correct spelling of search terms is a good idea.
Python Cookbook : spell checking. And here’s how to do it (“ispell -a” worked for me).
6. Writing programs to use Aspell. Full documentation of Aspell’s pipe based API.
Job Vacancy: Web Developer (in Bristol). An opportunity for a recent graduate.
Amendment No. 7 to Form S-1 (via) aka the Google Playboy interview, made public by the SEC.
Aug. 14, 2004
Olympic Games 2004 Hyperlink Policy (via) Yet Another Asshat Linking Policy.
Pastor jailed for murderous text messages (via) “A Swedish pastor has been jailed for life for faking text messages from God to get his nanny-lover to murder his wife and try to kill the husband of a second mistress.”
Aug. 15, 2004
Shirky: The Possibility of Spectrum as a Public Good (via) Unlicensed spectrum explained by Clay Shirky.
Neighborhood Hazard (or: Why the Cops Won’t Patrol Brice Street) (via) Entertaining story about a guy, his motorcycle and a psychotic squirrel. I like squirrels.
Aug. 16, 2004
Participatory journalism
Participatory (or citizen) journalism is getting a lot of coverage at the moment, thanks in part to Dan Gillmor’s new book We the Media. For a great example of participatory journalism in action, check out Wikipedia’s outstanding coverage of the 2004 Summer Olympics. It’s already a serious competitor to the official site in terms of content, and its wiki nature means it will only get better as the games continue. Hat tip: Gadgetopia.
[... 203 words]Wired News: It’s Just the ’internet’ Now. Wired update their style guidelines.
Aug. 17, 2004
FOXSports.com’s ludicrous link policy. In brief: send our legal department a letter first.
FOXNews.com’s ludicrous link policy. And another one.
windowing the elements of an iterable. Strange voodoo itertools magic.
MSN does wonders for FoxSports.com. People are sheep.